Talk:Global Community Engagement and Resilience Fund

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Re: COI Editing. I am writing for my organization's article on Wikipedia and the original text has been drastically cut down.

Here is the draft that I want to be developed. (note: This is not yet final, and there will still be additions left). Let me know your thoughts and suggestions on the article so it will be accepted as an official Wikipedia article:Ace dcruz (talk) 10:13, 26 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Ace dcruz: You need to declare the COI clearly on your userpage. You also need to disclose your affiliation with this article using {{connected contributor (paid)}}. Lastly, you need to request editing using {{request edit}}. See Talk:Intesa Sanpaolo for a good example.
You've been told on your talkpage about the decline. The reviewer left you a comment. —Hexafluoride Ping me if you need help, or post on my talk 11:01, 26 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

{{Help me}}

Thanks, Hexafluoride. Where will I insert this {{connected contributor (paid)}} in the article? The thing is I am a part of the organization, I am not paid solely for creating this article. Can you comment a bit on how the article stands now? Can I just cite our own organization's annual report for the data or do we need references that were not produced by my organization? Ace dcruz (talk) 13:40, 26 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Ace dcruz: Hi! You should put the paid contributor template on this talk page, as it says in the {{connected contributor (paid)}}. Even if you are editing just as part of your job, and you have other duties, you should use this template - because for the portion of your day you work on this article, you are being paid for that activity. Also, obviously, you have financial incentive to be positive about the organization.
As for the article, right now it looks a little bare - maybe the two lists could be made to have two columns, or have a little more information about the programs in each country, and how much each donor country gave. The sources look OK, but citing the annual report is not usually preferred. If you can find a third party who has verified the information, we would prefer that. It may also be preferable to take the information out, if you cannot find a source to corroborate.
I hope that helps! Please use the {{ping}} template in the future, instead of the {{help me}} template, to request help from myself or @Hexafluoride:. This helps to reduce noise for our helper system, and should still get you a fast response. --MarkTraceur (talk) 14:50, 26 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]


Global Community Engagement and Resilience Fund
AbbreviationGCERF
FormationSeptember 2014
Legal statusFoundation
Location
  • Geneva, Switzerland
Official language
English
Key people
Carol Bellamy (Chair), Dr. Khalid Koser (Executive Director)
Websitewww.gcerf.org

The Global Community Engagement and Resilience Fund (GCERF) is a nonprofit foundation based in Geneva, Switzerland.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7] It is the first global effort to support local, community-level initiatives aimed at strengthening resilience against violent extremist agendas.[8][9][10][11]

The Guardian described the organization as "The world’s first global counter-terrorism “bank”."[1]

The foundation was announced by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu at the fourth Global Counterterrorism Forum Ministerial in New York, on September 27, 2013. On September 9, 2014, the foundation was officially established.[12] A Headquarters Agreement conferring to GCERF the status of an international organisation in Switzerland was signed on 26 May 2015.[8]

Twelve countries and the EU pledged over USD 25 million from both security and development sources.[13]

As of 2016, approximately USD 15 million has been granted to projects in Bangladesh, Mali, and Nigeria.[14] In 2016, projects in Kenya, Kosovo, and Myanmar were approved.[15]


Beneficiary Countries[12]


Donors[13]

Some Proposed Changes[edit]

Activities[edit]

GCERF's approach places emphasis on the potential of local communities to respond to violent extremism.[8] GCERF funding is directed toward communities at risk of radicalisation to violent extremist agendas. [8]GCERF empowers local actors to launch initiatives that provide innovative, lasting, constructive, and positive alternatives to what violent extremist groups claim to offer to vulnerable communities. GCERF currently has two streams of funding: [15]

The Core Funding Mechanism (CFM) relies on eligible countries that have been Board approved to form a multi-stakeholder Country Support Mechanism that consults nationally on PVE priorities, and solicits interest from local community organisations for funding. [15] Grant agreements will be signed in 2016 for a period of three years, covering the following types of initiatives:

  • prevent violent extremism (PVE) awareness raising and training on basic PVE concepts and techniques to prevent/resolve conflict and radicalisation to violent extremist agendas (sensitisation workshops, counter-narrative campaigns);
  • economic empowerment (vocational trainings, income generating activities, job placement);
  • interfaith dialogue (interfaith exchanges and collaboration in preventing violent extremism);
  • education (literacy training and integration of children in the school system);
  • arts, culture and sport (debate, essay competitions, arts and sport activities that bring together different cultural, ethnic, religious groups);
  • psychosocial and/or legal support (professional therapy and legal services);
  • PVE research (development of local PVE experts network).


The Accelerated Funding Mechanism (AFM) has been designed as a rapid response mechanism. The launching of the AFM is conditioned by a minimum level of contributions received and earmarked to this specific mechanism. [15] Ace dcruz (talk) 14:01, 26 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

References[edit]

References

  1. ^ a b Malik, Shiv (2014-10-30). "Counter-terrorism bank will give cash to combat extremism". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2016-09-05.
  2. ^ "Un Fonds à Genève pour lutter contre le terrorisme" (in French language). Tribune de Genève. Retrieved 2016-09-05.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)
  3. ^ "Stopper le terrorisme à la base" (in French language). Tribune de Genève. Retrieved 2016-09-05.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)
  4. ^ "La lutte contre la dérive radicale: place à l'hyperlocal" (in French language). Le Temps. Retrieved 2016-09-05.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)
  5. ^ "Bangladesh joins GCERF". Banglanews24.com. Retrieved 2016-09-05.
  6. ^ Independent, The. "Bangladeshi NGOs to receive funds to fight extremism". The Independent (Bangladesh newspaper). Retrieved 2016-09-05.
  7. ^ "GCERF do ta ndihmojë Kosovën në luftën kundër ekstremizmit të dhunshëm". Telegrafi (in Czech language). 2016-02-02. Retrieved 2016-09-05.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)
  8. ^ a b c d "GCERF Annual Report" (PDF). GCERF. GCERF. p. 3. Retrieved 26 October 2016. Cite error: The named reference ":3" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
  9. ^ "GCTF Inspired Institutions". GCTF. Retrieved 26 October 2016.
  10. ^ "Co-Chairs' Fact Sheet: Creating a Global Fund for Community Engagement and Resilience". US Department of State. Retrieved 26 October 2016.
  11. ^ "Creating a Global Community Engagement and Resilience Fund" (PDF). The Portal of Swiss Government. Retrieved 26 October 2016.
  12. ^ a b "GCERF Annual Report" (PDF). GCERF. GCERF. p. 13. Retrieved 26 October 2016.
  13. ^ a b "Donor FAQs". GCERF. Retrieved 26 October 2016.
  14. ^ "Switzerland backs new initiatives to prevent violent extremism worldwide". GCERF. Retrieved 26 October 2016.
  15. ^ a b c d "GCERF Annual Report" (PDF). GCERF. GCERF. p. 10. Retrieved 26 October 2016.

Category:Organizations established in 2014 Category:Organisations based in Geneva

Hi Ace dcruz, and thank for your suggestions to this article. I am turning down this draft as written because of two issues. First, some of the sentences in the "Activities" section are copied word-for-word from the GCERF annual report. Wikipedia is an open-source project: we are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License, which permits our readers to reuse our text for whatever purpose they desire. I presume that GCERF hold the copyright to the text of that report. Since Wikipedia lacks permission to reuse that material under a free license, it cannot be included in the article. Second, the draft doesn't quite fit the tone of a typical Wikipedia article. There's an overuse of jargon in your submission. Take for example the sentence "The Core Funding Mechanism (CFM) relies on eligible countries that have been Board approved to form a multi-stakeholder Country Support Mechanism that consults nationally on PVE priorities, and solicits interest from local community organisations for funding." What does "Country Support Mechanism" mean to the average Wikipedia reader? Instead, you could write, "Typically, the GCERF distributes funding to local communities through a multi-step review process. The Board of the GCERF chooses a review panel on the international level to evaluate recommendations by representatives from each nation applying for assistance, and decides how to allocate funds on the local level." That's only one example; there are other places in the submission that could use the same kind of clean up. Hope this helps. Altamel (talk) 03:07, 29 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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